[Ambassadors] FAmSCo elections coming your way

[neville at taygon.com]

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>> Hi Ambassadors,
>>
>> It's been a few months now since I no longer had an active role in the
>> resource side of Fedora Ambassadors, and even longer since I was a
>> formal member of FAMSCO.
>>
>> Even so, I wanted to take a few moments to write about some of the
>> topics that I'd like to see FAMSCO take a look at over the next year, in
>> order to make sure that Ambassadors overall is healthy, and to make sure
>> that FAMSCO itself is providing value to the Fedora community at large.
>>
>> I've organized my thoughts into a few categories:
>>
>>... snip ...
>>
>> PAY
>>
>> Make sure that the regional Ambassador credit card program is still
>> working, and not having any issues in terms of bill payment by Red Hat.
>> Consider expanding the program by another 1 or 2 people, and work with
>> Red Hat's Fedora leadership to determine the best way to do this.
>>
>> Keep a wiki page that lists every expense that could *not* be paid with
>> the community credit cards, and work with Red Hat's Fedora leadership to
>> figure out how to get those reimbursed in other ways. Â This wiki page
>> can be as simple as a list of trac tickets.
>>
>> Make sure that there is a reimbursment SLA that is followed by the
>> community credit card holders and Red Hat's Fedora leadership who are
>> able to reimburse. Â Collaborate w/ Red Hat to come up with a good
>> policy
>> here.
>
> I will add here that I haven't had any problems with dealing with this
> with Red Hat although I do feel rather in the dark about the current
> state of the budget and this has been something bothering me all
> along. I think we need some structure whereby community card holders
> have a much better understanding of the current state of the overall
> budget at frequent points in time to avoid overspending (or the
> persistent fear of overspending that comes from being in the dark).
>

I totally agree with the sense of fear that comes from being on the dark.

Neville